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Excess Potion of Accelerated Learning: Acquired in your Garrison (part of the Warlords of Draenor expansion), this gives you a 20-percent bonus to experience from killing monsters and finishing quests. It lasts one hour, but you can buy it multiple times and use it back-to-back. Alliance players buy it from Sergeant Crowler, horde players buy it from Sergeant Grimjaw. Does not work above level 99.
Last I wanna share a curious bug that almost freezes my game and force me to disable the addon. Anytime I add a (Citadel Crossbow [of the Fireflash]) my fps go from 75 to 22, and It's on a paladin, paladins dont even use crossbows. I noticed everytime I put something in my bags the addon takes the math and my fps goes from 75 to ~22 for a while (3 to 7 seconds) and is think it's internal and also think it's fine.
Anyway I will go ahead & download the Twitch app like everyone's saying, but I still need to know whether my in-game addon settings will carry over automatically, or whether they'd return to default same as if they'd all been uninstalled in the curse client then reinstalled from scratch. Because if it's the latter then I will have to take screenshots of the settings on all my toons BEFORE I install the addons thru the Twitch client.
There's a whole list of websites that are trying to compile the working addons for the WoW Classic beta. The easiest one to parse through is Will It Classic. The site has a list of addons — including a search function — and has color-coded each one to signify whether or not it's working on the beta client. Keep in mind that the client runs on the Legion API, so there are a few semi-current addons that work without any tweaking by their creators.
First of all you should create a new character on your account on the desired server. Then you order character levelling service and give us your login and password. ATTENTION! You should not be asked for secret question and any other account details. Beware of scammers. After payment is finished your order goes to the booster. Our levelling specialists will earn all needed levels for you very fast, because they know the best routes and they do it every day. Character levelling is totally safe, especially because our boosters don't use third-party software, all characters are hand-played. As soon as your character gets to the desired level, you will get a notification. And then you'll be able to develop your character further and enjoy the experience of playing at maximum level.
Hey. This time I tried seeing if it is there without setting a waypoint, with waypoint set and arrow disabled in the settings, and with waypoint set and arrow enabled. All 3 times "GPSArrowTab" is there and blocks right clicks. It's also nowhere near where I actually have the arrow as you can see in the screenshot :/ https://i.imgur.com/3BcdCWb.jpg
The recruit also grants the recruiter levels, with the latter gaining one level for every two levels the recruit gains. There are a lot of rules and restrictions to that, however. It all basically boils down to leveling alternate characters together. The recruiter can even earn epic mounts and battle pets if you stick with the game for a couple months.
Most classes in World of Warcraft start at first level, but Death Knights and Demon Hunters are exceptions. They start at level 55 and 98, respectively. This alone can shave a huge chunk of time from your leveling experience. Of course, it only works if you want to play a Death Knight or Demon Hunter, but they're both solid classics that can dish out damage or tank in a group.
As it goes with almost any MMORPG, World of Warcraft is a very grindy game. In it, you'll have to pump your character to the maximum available level before you can get to the end-game content which all players are so used to. And the problem is – the process of going through all the expansions just to get yourself one new class to be playable in raids is very time consuming. Even if you have a vanilla WoW leveling guide at your disposal, you still have to do all the boring quests or clear those repetitive dungeons over and over again. This pattern affects almost every activity in this online world. At the end of your day, you need to really dedicate your time to playing the game or you will get nowhere.
Our Mists® leveling packages are tailored to get you to level 90 as soon as possible. Staying at level 85 will make you easily ganked by the new level 90's; likewise, if you're level 90, you can have fun ganking the lower level 85's! :-) By getting to level 90, you will have the upper hand on the economy through the auction house. Players will want to buy the new greens and profession mats that come out and being level 90, it will make it easier for you to farm these items. Additionally, you will be able to start gaining level 90 PvP conquest points for the new season 12 arena gear since the level restriction for Rated Battlegrounds and Arena is level 90.
Determine the gear stats and armor type you need for your new character. For example, a paladin requires Strength as their main stat, and heavy armor (the armor type) will scale as the character scales if they are initially unable to wear heavy armor due to being a lower level. Your optimal heirloom gear set will feature the same main stat as your starting gear.
WoW Patch 8.1.5 follows Tides of Vengeance in Battle for Azeroth, and it is currently being tested on the PTR. WoW patch 8.1.5 is expected to be released in March 2019, after all wings of Battle of Dazar'alor unlock on LFR, but nothing official has been announced. Many wow fans would like to ready more wow gold to strengthen their weapons or armors.
We have no idea what implications this might have and whether or not it even indicates anything, since Patch 8.2 is still in testing and a Tuesday launch is more than unlikely due to Essence tuning and Azshara's Eternal Palace, which is supposedly coming shortly after launch. Blizzard said they wouldn't be delaying the new raid like they did with Battle of Dazar'alor.
Battle for Azeroth's War Mode puts you into PvP mode and grants you 10 percent extra experience. But since the two factions will mostly level in separate zones entirely, you should almost definitely have this on when you're leveling. That said, if you start getting killed by random PvP players consistently, stop using it. Although 10 percent is nice, it's not worth dying every few minutes for.
I've found the best way to level alts is Pet Battling over by Halfhill in Pandaria. My Nightborne Priest I got to 90 that way (the rest was WoD Treasures, then regular leveling post 100), my Mag'har Shaman I'm at 61 with 16 hours or so played. Having a second monitor to zone out and watch Netflix or whatever helps. I think it's the fastest way to get to 90 personally. I really dislike the leveling changes so I just Pet Battle now.
You earn a large rested experience bonus when you log out in this rest areas. This gives you a massive 200-percent bonus to experience gain from most actions (though experience from quests isn't included). The amount of rested experience you earn increases the longer you're logged off, and your experience bar will be blue (instead of purple) while you have the bonus.
Drustvar is far and away the hardest Alliance zone, which is exactly why you want to do it first. If you have legendary items, they'll still be usable, and if you don't, this zone will still be easier early on than it will be later. Drustvar is also extremely fast and will let you jump out ahead of your competition in other zones, which means fewer players around to take your quest objectives.
Vol'Dun is the hardest and most tedious of the Horde Zones in Battle for Azeroth. It's also probably the one that makes the most sense. Each sections of quests leads directly to the one you should do next. For all of these reasons it's going to be best to get this one done early. Thanks to any legendary items you might have collected in Legion, you'll be strongest in the leveling process before 115 and weaker after — because that's when the legendary effects stop working.
Rank Source Major Power Desc Minor Power Desc Major Power Actual Minor Power Actual 1 Claim a weekly PVP War Chest in Season 3 or later. Conflict Strife Conflict Strife 2 Reach 1000+ rating then claim your next weekly PVP War Chest in Season 3 or later. Conflict Strife Conflict Strife 3 Collect Burgeoning Battlefield Furor from your weekly War Chest. Conflict Strife Conflict Strife 4 Reach the rank of Elite in the week then claim your next weekly PVP War Chest in Season 3 or later. Conflict Strife Conflict Strife We datamined the following PvP talents related to Conflict and Strife in the latest 8.2 PTR build:
ConsolePort: A WoW addon which natively supports Xbox and DualShock controllers. WoWMapper: Third-party software for keyboard and mouse emulation. This software is not against the ToS, because it does not automate your gameplay. Multiboxers are without any issues using ISBoxer for instance. Xbox or a DualShock controller: Alternatively, you can use a Steam controller and enable Stream streaming. Setup instructions can be found here. DualShock's touchpad acts like a mouse, which is quite nice. A long HDMI cable: In case you decide to hook up your PC to a TV. Instructions
All copyrights, trade marks, service marks belong to the corresponding owners. All included here mentioned brand names are registered and property of the respective companies. World of Warcraft (tm) and Blizzard Entertainment are registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment Inc. League of Legends is a registered trademark of Riot Games, Inc. We are in no way affiliated with, associated with or endorsed by Riot Games, Inc.
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As the first major content release of Battle for Azeroth, patch 8.1: Tides of Vengeance is adding a number of new ways to gear up, as well as increasing the item level of rewards from existing activities. Tides of Vengeance goes live on December 11th and will add most of the new content, but Mythic+ and PvP Season 2 will not start until the new raid, Battle of Dazar'alor, releases in January, at which time the item level thresholds will increase to the new Titanforge cap of 425.
When it comes to WoW fast leveling it is very complicated to getting the quickest route possible for completing certain tasks. Developers made sure you spend as much time as possible playing the game and doing repetitive tasks every day, and unfortunately forgot to make the gameplay fun while doing it. And although you can complete the grind yourself, you'll probably get bored while doing so. That is why BestBoost.Club offers you to buy WoW power leveling boost and spend your precious time having fun with your friends, have a workout or just relax while we will do all the work!
If you're looking for simple, just get actionator. Set it to undercut everything you post for 1c and alt click from your bags. It will place the item on the ah window, do a scan for that item and autoset the price for how much you told to undercut (you can change it accordingly if you feel like it). It will remember if you do stacks for which items and replicate it everytime.
Pick a simple goal or idea for your AddOn. It's often a good idea to just make an AddOn that only opens a window or prints a message to get started, especially when everything is new for you. After that works the way it should, and you have learned everything necessary to make an AddOn work at all, you can move on to adding one piece at a time toward your goals. Writting software in general is often a never ending process because you can always think of something new to add or improve.
Tycoon is a shady company that is simply trying to get people to buy an addon that is a 'lite' version of a free addon that is actually better (TSM). The company behind it buys dislikes on YouTube videos from other 'gold-makers', refuses to offer support if, for example, your computer crashes and you lose your addon (you'll have to buy it again), and pays random people to praise Tycoon on YouTube with no personal use of it at all. Overall, just stay clear of Tycoon and any of its affiliates.
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This 60,000-sf, two-floor tenant buildout included conference rooms on half of the 42nd floor; along with training rooms; IDF; and a communicating stair from the 42nd to 43rd floor. The multi-phased renovation and expansion of the space included a refresh of the 43rd floor, with demolition and buildout of the HR and marketing suite. As well, 70 new trading desk locations through the raised-floor trading area are supported by supplemental cooling and power.
A complex build of highly customized construction and finishes demanded intricate trade coordination of the custom metal and wood panels and ceilings. Given this was work in an occupied space, and on an active trading floor, careful planning and execution was required to ensure no interruptions to critical power, supplemental cooling, or daily trader activities.


David P. Goldman writes the "Spengler" column for Asia Times and PJ Media. His book How Civilizations Die appeared in 2011 and in Hebrew translation in 2014. He has written on Jewish religious issues for the Jewish webzine Tablet, the Torah Musings blog, the quarterly Hakirah, Jewish Action and other publications, and is a frequent contributor to Claremont Review of Books. He is also a member of the Board of Advisers of The Journal of American Affairs and formerly was a senior editor at First Things magazine.


After placing my order and receiving it within a few days I noticed an error on my account number. This error was a typo on my part. I contacted Cheque Print immediately where I was greeted by John. He listened carefully to my circumstance and at no charge, he was happy to have another batch of cheques printed and sent out immediately. I was surprised and very appreciative! In a world where customer service has disappeared with the advances of e-commerce, ChequePrint has continued the tradition of value-added service while dealing first hand with their customers. Thank you.


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Q: Does the order of dependencies matter in the visual studio compiler I have a vc++ project with about 8 dependencies. The compiler complains some references are not found, but i have double checked and the static library is linked to the project.
The type of project i am trying to compile is the Dynamic library Project.
In visual studio project settings, does the order of the linker dependencies matter for compilation.

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The theme for this first issue is hope, which aptly seems pretty hard to come by nowadays. In the foul, grim spectre of the Trump administration, the basic human rights of trans communities and LGBT people (not to mention most "othered" social groups) are being consciously and hatefully ignored. But White is determined to rid his readers of despair and inspire with his new zine; now more than ever, he feels, is the time to encourage hope and solidarity. "Hope to me is never giving up, never giving in," says White, aspiring to appeal to the outsiders, regardless of gender or ethnicity.
What motivated you to make 'hope' the theme of the zine?
Theo White: Growing up in Jamaica and moving to London in the mid-90s, I was always fascinated by the images I saw flicking through my mum's fashion magazines. I'd also save up my pocket money to buy copies of Dazed, i-D and The Face magazine when other kids were buying sweets.
I really wanted to create a zine that people like myself could relate to. I wanted to see black men like myself on the pages of a magazine represented in a positive and creative light. I wanted to inspire anyone else like myself who often feels like an outsider that, "Yes, you too can have your own magazine". It takes great courage and resilient hope to put yourself and your vision out into the world.
Do you think hope is more important than ever in our current political climate?
Theo White: Yes certainly, I think more now than ever. You just have to walk out the front door every day and see the struggle on people's faces, people are looking for an escape route from life, (from) reality. People are unhappy and searching for answers. Life is hard and people just want the chance of living their best life. I feel with all the sad and evil things happening within our world, we can all do with as much hope as we can find on our journeys. That's the greatest thing about being a creative: you can almost block out what's happening in the real world whilst still functioning in it and simultaneously creating your own other world. I've really found the importance of this (in) creating this issue.
You ask all of your interviewees but what exactly does hope mean to you, and how do you stay hopeful in your daily life?
You have such a beautiful mix of content within, I was particularly drawn to the interview about Tongues Untied – why did you include that excerpt in this piece?
Theo White: Marlon Riggs, the director of Tongues Untied, is a huge inspiration of mine. I stumbled across this interview (first published in 1990) and I was like, "People need to read this!" (It) basically sums up my thoughts exactly and that of Marlon's work. Marlon spoke of black men loving black men being not just a revolutionary act, but within the context of black male dynamics, the revolutionary act; really learning to love within all the conditioning of learning to hate ourselves. At the time of its release Tongues Untied was considered controversial because of its frank portrayal of black gay sexuality. People had seen nothing like it before, yet alone on national television: it's so in your face (and) refreshing to the eyes. Tongues Untied is such an important part of gay history and my own. I think everyone should watch it, no matter your sexuality, colour or gender we can all learn something from the film. Even though Marlon passed away in 94, his work is still very much valid and relevant to this day.
I often think of all the cast and characters in the film and wonder what happened to them after the cameras stopped rolling. I feel we are too consumed with celebrity culture these days and this generation of black gay men don't know enough about our history and those that paved the way for us: Marlon Riggs, James Baldwin, Essex Hemphill, RuPaul, all the brave cast of Paris Is Burning. These people are the real stars in my eyes and the one's we should be celebrating – the dreamers, the outcasts. That's not to say you can't love and aspire to be the next Rihanna or Beyonce, because you can, but that's not the be all and end all. Step out and explore all the wild and wonderful possibilities that lay before you in this curious world.
So you got the likes of Campbell Addy, Kojey Radical, etc involved. How did you choose who you wanted to centre? What is it you thought they could bring to the project?
Theo White: It was very important to me from the start to have other black creatives involved in the zine, especially those from the LGBT community whose work I identify with. There is an exciting community of us who are making work to push progression and love into the community and to wider audiences. We are massively underrepresented so I think it's important to create our own platforms and have our voices heard unfiltered. Ib Kamara is a true visionary with a loving soul, (he)'s creating such important work that's pushing boundaries on the subjects of gender and racial identity. The images he and Campbell Addy created are some of my favourites in the zine. I danced around a lot to Kojey Radical's music working on the zine; he's got such a real vibe about him and I love that he's so passionate about his craft and spreading positivity with his music. He inspires me. Johnny Blueeyes is like a father to me. He's lived such a fascinating and interesting life. I loved how openly he spoke of his time living in New York in the 90s and the importance of giving love to oneself and others.
Read more or purchase the zine here.


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Q: How to use value contained in a variable in some other class I have a UserDetails class. I have a function in another class B(TableViewController) which contains an object of the UserDetails class, something like this:
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A: In the third class, set up a property of type UserDetails.
When you move from B to C (either in the prepareForSegue or where you init the TVC and push it) just pass the UserDetails object into C so it has its own version.  That way you keep is simple.

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A: I remember answering a similar question. Use of singleton will be the best approach according to me. You can also see my answer regarding use of singleton for global variables.
You might also use appDelegate for this purpose. But I won't recommend using appDelegate. See this for clarification.


Assimilating history into a palatable, meaningful tale for today's children is no easy thing. Get it wrong and you risk children shunning not only a potentially great read, but learning about periods of our past that explain the character of our future as a people and a nation. A situation of unquestionable adversity, yet adversity has many advantages – 'sweet are the uses of adversity' after all. Get it right, and children will embrace history with gusto and every ounce of the here and now vigour that defines childhood.
Sheryl Gwyther's ability to immerse young readers into worlds of yesteryear with such a clear strong presence of today is exemplary. Her narrative slides along as alluringly as a sweet mountain brook, mesmerizing readers with plenty of action and emotion. Sweet Adversity is exactly the type of book my 12-year-old-self would have lapped up with unbridled zeal, especially as it acquaints children with the wondrous words of Shakespeare, some of which adult readers will connect with of course, but which provide a beautiful rich new seam of learning for tweens.
Believing in yourself when all else around you is in a state of upset and confusion is an emotion children are more than capable of recognising. Keeping the faith when adrift in turbulent seas is not only testing and difficult at times, it also determines your future perspectives on life. These next few books that touch on the importance of keeping the faith in dire times provide intense and touching lifelines to children (and adults) of all ages.
Marwood is more than adept at distilling emotions into moving verse novels. Attaching emotion and memories to physical things is something humans are adept at, as well. This story deftly portrays a young boy's heart-felt attempt to retain and simultaneously farewell everything he holds dear in his life as he and his family prepare to sell up and leave their family farm.
Being brave, is less about being courageous and more about ignoring your fear because you simply cannot afford to waste any more time on it. Overcoming doubts and anxieties is something children face every day. Picture books like these encourage a heightened awareness of one's own feelings and capabilities and in doing so banish fears and promote determination.
Sophie represents a whole playground of children who spiral into anguish after they lose a precious toy, or in their eyes, a stalwart playmate. When Bear goes missing, Sophie embarks on an apprehension-filled journey in search of him that will have little ones perched on the edge of their seats. Thankfully, the cute ending reunites and delights. Johnston's winsome illustrations elevate this heart-warming story of facing your fears and tenacity to the next level. Utterly endearing, this story will warm the cockles of your heart and encourage very young children to 'never stop hoping'.
Toot Toot! Picture Books that make you Hoot!
It's been bubbling within me for a couple of years now…the need to express a story about – yes, wait for it…flatulence. Undeniable perennial favourites with kids, stories the make you hoot and toot are not only fun to write but as it turns out, more prevalent than I first thought. There is an intoxicating number of farting picture books blowing about now. Here are a couple of fresh offerings too funny to pass up. I've included a couple of non-farting titles too for the more musically, less peristaltically motivated.
Fart slipped out one day, unnoticed and unseen, but super keen to absorb everything about his new home. Trouble is, wherever he wafts, he encounters people reacting badly to some very reprehensible odours. Fart floats on, anxious to get as far away as possible from those dreadful smells, blissfully unaware that it might be him causing those noxious stinks. As Fart wafts around the neighbourhood, he is overjoyed by his surroundings and grateful to be alive. Just one thing would make him happier, a friend. All hope of finding a new best friend is shattered though, just like Fart's heart, when he realises with a shock that the disgusting, horrible, terrible smell is him. Alone and crestfallen, Fart finally chances upon the friend he's always wanted, someone who appreciates him for exactly what he is.
Continue reading Toot Toot! Picture Books that make you Hoot!


How wonderfully appropriate is it that someone who spends as much time as I do unintentionally sprawled out on the floor would be in love with the season known as "fall"?
But I ask you, what's not to love?
There's the lightly sour but delightfully sweet fragrance of fresh apple cider, apple butter, and hot apple crisp. The first harvest of pumpkins carved into lanterns and baked into pies, cookies and breads…their discarded seeds dried and roasted to perfection.
And how could I forget the pumpkin spice latte, with just a dash of cinnamon and whipped cream, on a cold autumn morn?
There's nothing better than days just cool enough to need a sweater and evenings destined for a glass of wine and the soft glow of a fire. I would gladly sacrifice the entire summer for just a few more months of autumn weather.
It's the time of the year when spiders, ghosts and witches crawl out of the woodwork and find themselves decorating our windows, doors, and walkways.
The mere sight of a bite sized Snickers opens a door into a world of nostalgia, transporting me back to my childhood.
If I close my eyes I can almost smell the musty scent of an old quilt wrapped around me as I crawled onto the couch to watch, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. I can hear the crackle as the foil dome grows on a batch of Jiffy Pop Corn on the stove. And I can almost taste the first bite of caramel melted over a bowl of that same freshly popped corn.
I wish I could buy a first class ticket into the past to spend just one more day as the innocent eight year old girl folding squares of tape to hang cardboard decorations on the windows. Stealing a piece of candy from the bowl meant for trick-or-treaters. Trying on the costume her mother made from scratch…the same costume that would go on to win a prize at the annual Halloween parade.
The first day of fall isn't just another number on the calendar…it's a warm place inside that never really goes away with the first frost of winter. It's always waiting patiently for time to roll around again. Like that musty old quilt folded carefully on a shelf and forgotten until the first cool day.
Until the next time…I'll be picking up a few pumpkins at the market.
Posted on September 23, 2011 by Erica Lucke Dean.


One of the most in demand visa programs to the US is all set to undergo change, with immediate effect and bills targeting this specific visa have already been introduced in the House of Representatives. While the H – 1B visa program seeks to offer workers from other nations, especially India a chance to work in US for US companies, it was often used by many to seek permanent residency in the US, with the sponsor company supporting this change in visa.
And while this particular Visa saw many skilled workers apply to the US, it nevertheless came with certain requirements including a mandatory cap of sixty five thousand visas per year with an additional twenty thousand for those with advanced degrees. The current STEM program is a derivative of the same H – 1B visa program, one that entails students to work under similar requirements in the US for a certain period.
However, all that's due to change soon – for with President Trump being extremely anti-immigration, the current cap may be revised down, with the advanced degree exception being done away with and with stronger regulations. Apart from this, Trump has already signed into order seeking to modify the current H – 1B program whereby American companies will have to pay more to hire overseas workers than they would an American worker.
This is all part of the "buy American" theme that served to buttress trump during his presidency campaign and was also part of one of his various promises. The impact of changes on the H – 1B program are yet to be felt properly but as it stands, it will impact hundreds of thousands of Indian students, enrolled at various universities across America.


Menominee is located on the Upper Peninsula along the shores of Lake Michigan. The town is situated on the Menominee River, and along with neighboring Marinette, they are called "The River Cities Region." The colorful name "Menominee" comes from an Indian tribe, from whom the land was purchased by the federal government in 1833. Menominee did not incorporated as a city until 1883, after the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad reached the area. The town serves as the county seat for Menominee County, and is the gateway to the great north wilderness areas, the place "Where the Best of Michigan Begins." This region of Michigan, situated between the Upper Peninsula and Northeastern Wisconsin, is a vacationer's paradise; one of the most untouched areas in the country, with much of it the same as it was hundreds of years ago. Numerous activities are available here, including swimming, canoeing and fishing in pristine lakes and rivers, camping, hunting, sailing, hiking and golf. Less than a two-hour drive takes you to downhill skiing; cross-country skiing, snowmobiling and ice fishing can also be found in the Menominee area. For exploring the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, a trip to The River Cities of Menominee and Marinette is a good choice for a vacation base. Restaurants are plentiful in the cities, everything from fast food to fine dining, and accommodations range from bed & breakfasts, hotels and motels and country inns.
The closest airports in the area are the Delta County airport (ESC) located about 48 miles northeast of Menominee in Escanaba, Michigan, the Austin Straubel International airport (GRB) located approximately 50 miles southwest of Menominee in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the Ford airport (IMT) located roughly 53 miles northwest of Menominee in Iron Mountain Kingsford, Michigan, and finally the Outagamie County Regional airport (ATW) located around 74 miles southwest of Menominee in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Q: Can you use non-AMD libraries with RequireJS? I know you can use shims to run Backbone.js, for example.  But let's say you have a library that behaves worse.
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Can a library like that be used with RequireJS?  If so, how?

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Theme : Compromise – Playing the Fuel
Over 100 years ago the inventor of the compression ignition engine died under mysterious circumstances. Too late however – his monster had been unleashed.
One of the few good looking diesel installations. Kenworth W900 – image : fitzgeraldgliderkits.com
It's recently been Christmas in the UK and round about that time, with the traditional Christmas dinner imminent, an inevitable jokey question is "does anyone really like brussel sprouts?". Actually, I live with someone who does, so the answer is inexplicably "yes". But far harder for me to accept is that there are people who actually like diesel engines – who prefer them to petrol ones. You could force feed me sprouts for a month and I could never even pretend to have any affection for the clattery, stinking, slippery product of Rudolf Diesel's over-fertile mind.
As mentioned elsewhere, I have a motorhome. Like virtually all larger motorhomes, it's built on a commercial vehicle base – in this case the ubiquitous Fiat Ducato. Once upon a time you could buy a petrol-engined Ducato in Europe, but not for quite a while. This is understandable since just as with generators, large boats and railway engines, for commercial vehicles diesel still rules. With more torque, better fuel consumption and, in the Ducato's case, being a durable, purpose-built heavy-duty vehicle unit, it is the prudent choice for any sole trader or fleet manager and, if the driver complains about the clatter … well the driver doesn't really complain.
But a motorhome's life is often less stressful and less frantic (though I speak from theory, not experience). Also, many motorhomes don't pile on the mileage and, compared with their van base, they are more costly to acquire and have much longer lives. As such, the clattery noise of diesel and the need to talk VERY LOUD at speed (here I speak from experience), might suggest that a petrol engine, though a bit more costly per mile to run, could be a far better option.
Last week I repeated a drive to Holland in my petrol engined Nissan Cube that I last carried out in a diesel engined Renault. The recent trip was far more relaxed and I realised that my dislike of diesel doesn't abate. And I specified this Kangoo for work several years ago though, back then, I had little choice; diesel had such a hold that a petrol-engined equivalent wasn't even offered.
Doubtless they had our best intentions at heart. Two highly respected names, Citroen and Ricardo conspire to make the first production diesel car in the 1930s Rosalie
For cars, diesel's murky star is now, thankfully, in the descendant. Though not really for any more logical reason than its ascent. I remember when the only people who bought diesel were taxi companies. As a kid, our local station always had a couple of Austin Cambridges sitting outside, their lethargic 40 bhp diesel engines rattling the teeth of passers-by. Undoubtedly diesel starts out with the advantage that, as raw fuel it contains about 15% more energy than petrol but, until relatively recently, it had the additional advantage of having had far more development money thrown at it by European manufacturers than had petrol. This was because the late 20th Century makeover of diesel as the 'Green' choice still held currency and the illogical tax breaks given to it in 2001 had more than doubled the number of oil-burners in the UK. The 2012 World Health Organisation condemnation of it was largely ignored and I think the most damaging thing in the public eye was VW's 'Dieselgate'. What that did was to emphasise how the industry's attempt to 'clean-up' an essentially dirty fuel and conform to ever more stringent regulations was pushing manufacturers to desperation.
Those were your lungs. Blocked particulate filter – image : dackmotorgroup.co.uk
Bosch is promising us a leap forward in battery technology but, for many, the time is not right for embracing EVs or even PHEVs. So, although my old local railway station probably now has a line of Prii sitting outside, it remains the case that, if you are piling on 12,000+ miles in a year and money is tight, diesel is the hard-headed spreadsheet choice. But then, depending how long you hang on to it, you take a gamble with future legislation. I can't drive my 15 year old motorhome into various German and Italian towns any more. As an import, I had to register for exemption to keep it in London and, from September 2020, any diesel car over 5 years old will either be excluded, or must pay a special charge to enter Central London. Such legislation isn't going to diminish and diesel is now seen as the biggest culprit towards health-damaging pollution. Its rise and fall was encouraged greatly by government knee-jerks, unsurprisingly accompanied by little in-depth understanding. The industry was happy to conspire and so the responsible diesel buyer of a few years ago will be tomorrow's pariah.
VW's V10 Diesel
I know that I'm atypical, in that the only car diesel engine that ever interested me was VAG's rather silly V10 as fitted to the Phaeton and Touareg and, generally, I hate the whole feel of automotive diesel, from the clatter – however well insulated it might be from the driver – to the torque range. But I have to concede that, like music and sex, other people's taste might differ. So, everyone to their own, yet I can ask whether we, the buying public, addressed all the right questions when choosing diesel.
Most of us only have so much time to spend when researching car purchase. For someone who is so sloppy with their own finances, I am surprisingly enthusiastic when it comes to setting up a spreadsheet and carrying out a financial analysis. Not that it does me great good since looking at all the variables involved in car purchase, it is very rare that you can compare like with like. Once you choose one particular engine over another, fuel consumption, fuel price, servicing costs, road tax, insurance and depreciation all change in varying amounts and in various directions. There are other things that might apply such as congestion charges and car tax allowances. And many of these can vary considerably from country to country.
Possibly one of the best diesels available – but I still wouldn't want one – image : bmwblog.com
Lets look at the 3 Series BMW and compare 2 options using a higher end X-Drive M Sport as a base. This is the sort of car that no-one buys unless they are a bit self-indulgent. The basic price of the diesel version is £2,475.00 more than the petrol but, if you did 12,000 miles a year in it, allowing say 30% optimism on official combined figures and assuming fuel prices return to their previous higher figures, over 5 years you might save around £1,500 in fuel and road tax. But with cars like this, it's usual to specify a few indulgencies. It's easy to blow thousands on specifying a BMW and ticking, say, leather instrument panel, enhanced speakers and head-up display, would already add over £2,000 which, after 5 years, it would be optimistic to believe that it would add £500 to the car's resale value. So, that is more or less like for like. At this point my logic would be that if you really accept that a leather dash is a luxury worth having, surely a smooth, quiet petrol engine is even more desirable. And if you only did only 6,000 miles a year there would be no advantage. Except of course, if you chose petrol, a nicer engine. And if you're assuming that the diesel will hold its residual as well or better than the petrol version, consider the point made above about future legislation. Today, buying diesel could end up a costly risk.
But of course, as petrol makes a comeback, there is another compromise. We're now used to reading of consumption figures achieved by mid range saloons that I never even approached in all my years of driving flimsy Citroen twins. In order to achieve better fuel consumption from petrol engines, no-one is fettling velvety smooth six cylinders, they are turbocharging small capacity twin and triple cylinders. Mazda and Peugeot seem to have made very decent progress, with the PureTech getting very good press, and Fiat's TwinAir and Ford's EcoBoost are creditable, even if official fuel consumption figures might need to be taken with an even bigger pinch of salt that normal.
But most of what I've written above is irrelevant to my argument. I don't think I'm alone in finding driving diesel so unsatisfactory. But I wonder how many people who might readily allow themselves the indulgence of a full length sunroof and 18″ alloys, don't allow themselves the indulgence of a nicer engine. For me, I am willing to spend more on fuel in order to have the responsiveness and basic smoothness of a petrol engine. And, under the right circumstances, I'd probably be willing to use even more fuel on something with more cylinders. Primarily for me it's a sensual thing but, although my environmental credentials are by no means great, the thought that I'm not shoving my nasty carcinogens down people's throats is a bonus.
Marine Diesel Crankshaft – image : DHHI Group, China
Author Sean PatrickPosted on 20 Jan 2017 7 Jan 2021 Categories Compromise Theme, Monthly Themes, The IndustryTags Rudolf Diesel
47 thoughts on "Theme : Compromise – Playing the Fuel"
Mark James says:
There is the small matter of poisoning people's brains with carbon monoxide, something of which there is only a trace from diesel engines.
Sean Patrick says:
I'm hardly advocating a (to be topical) Trump-like denial of emissions problems and we're certainly talking about judging which is the slightly lesser evil here. Living in a city, though, my own inclination is that diesel emissions are a large problem, and harder to control, all the more so because it had an easy ride for so long.
Bill Malcolm says:
It's not 1992 Europe anymore just before catalytic converters became required for petrol engines, 18 years after North America had them and lead was finally expunged from fuel.
The CO carbon monoxide output of petrol engines runs around 35 ppm these days, not 1500 as of olden days. So bang goes that argument.
Robertas Parazitas says:
Clever old Mazda may be just about to deliver the best of both worlds:
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2017/01/mazdas-hcci-for-2018/
D Gatewood says:
The solution is a PHEV until there is more choice of full affordable EVs with greater range. My experience with an Ampera proves all your desires can be met today, extreme economy, minimal pollution, silky smoothness, dead quiet, and instant torque, and unlimited range.
GMs just released the 238 mile range Bolt which will be the catalyst for longer range affordable EVs that will inevitably Trump the PHEVs.
For any doubters of the practicality of EVs I recently engaged in conversation with a Tesla owner, a travelling salesman, who did 45,000 miles in one year with his model S, said he would never own another combustion engine car!
Just realised I used the word Trump, sorry!
Actually we are planning a small prize for the contributor who uses can bring the T word into their comments in the most respectful way on this auspicious and truly boootifull, really bootifull, day.
simonstahel says:
When I mention that my C6 is a gas-guzzling petrol version, I'm often met with incomprehension. But I know Sean will understand my decision. Other than relying on my preferences for smooth, rattle- and vibration free riding and a balanced torque delivery over a broad range of revs, I also did the spreadsheet part. Which was really easy… A diesel car in the same condition (age, mileage, maintenance) would have cost me at least 5'000 CHF more, or rather 7'000 to 8'000. Try to get this back from fuel economy with less than 20'000 km a year (I guessed that I wanted to keep the car for seven years).
The C6 certainly needs the smoothest engine to complement it. I admit to having driven diesels that, from the driver's seat seemed to have smooth sounding engines (eg an Opel Insignia). But that was more a tribute to their soundproofing. Once outside the sound was unmistakable. And the thing had a 6 speed gearbox – where is that famous diesel torque in the real world?
Laurent aka Sam the Eagle says:
Am I right to think that it's the systematic use of turbochargers that skews the torque delivery, and not an attribute of diesel engines per se?
I imagine it's not turbochargers, per se, but the way they are set up. The priorities for today's car use are fuel consumption and emissions. Turbochargers in commercial vehicle and marine diesel applications go back many decades but, certainly, today's car turbo-diesels lack both the good and bad characteristics of the non-turbo Peugeot 405 we had at work which you could probably have moved off in top gear, but which no amount of gear changing would ever have made feel lively.
I see. And in passing you've just answered your own question about the presence of 6-speed gearbox in the car you drove.
Paul H says:
I actually preferred driving our diesel Bravo over the petrol Passat on long trips. The torque, especially over our hilly landscape was very addictive, and the economy impressive. Ok, the engine was not as smooth, but it wasn't entirely without character.
As for the near future, I think PHEVs of some sort will be a good compromise for many. In my simple world, I'd like to imagine that the fossil fuelled engine could be tuned to run as efficiently as possible at a (very) limited RPM range, feeding power directly to the batteries, with the electric motors providing the drive (like the i3?)
Not knowing enough myself, I wonder if a liquid methanol (or other non-hydrogen) fuel cell could be used in place of the ICE for this mythical PHEV to give range and fast "recharge"? It would eliminate the problem of transport and storage of hydrogen; there'd only be one motor/engine, but two energy storage systems.
richard herriott says:
Thanks for that – particularly the way you point out the inconsistency of fussing over mpg while checking the Harmann Kardon box, ventilated rear armrest box and ermine boot liner. I really like the petrolly character of my car and dislike the fact my loan car on holidays in the ROI is usually a diesel. The whole state approach to ecology is wrong too – diesel versus petrol mattered zero compared to encouraging car use long after it became clear it's a bad idea if its anything more than a leisure transport mode. My motto is drive petrol, drive less.
I'm with Sean on this one. You pay your money and make your choice but I would much prefer to have sub 20mpg figures and relish every drive rather than suffer the agricultural noise and vibration of a diesel. My neighbour (4 doors away) recently bought a brand new Jag XE. You can hear it start every morning.
A diesel Jaguar: if your neighbour wanted to save money they should have bought a petrol i10, second hand.
Eóin Doyle says:
It's remarkable how little time it took the industry to convince us this state of affairs was acceptable. Just meditate on those words for a moment: a diesel Jaguar. It's mortifying. But what real choice is there? Is a petrol equivalent even available now and if it was, could you afford the taxation? Compression ignition can never be a refined method of motive power. Not with such violent forces at play.
NVH has become utterly irrelevant to the wider motoring universe. It isn't to me. I loathe and detest diesel engines. You can quote as many power, torque and economy figures until your hair falls out but I simply don't care. It sounds and feels awful. Furthermore, it's nasty, noxious and it wasn't today or yesterday we found that out. In some cars the agricultural cacophony is something you can ignore or dismiss as a necessary evil. In a Jaguar (Ditto Maserati/Alfa Romeo/Porsche/BMW etc…) it's a denial of the very engineering principles upon which the marque was founded.
A wonderfully-written article that puts you in agreement with our Lord and mentor, LJK Setright. I love brussels, just bought some nice ones today, but hate diesel engines.
I have no known allergies bar diesel exhaust. My last trip to the UK to see old friends was a nightmare. On the M62, my eyelids puffed up into reddened blobs I could barely see through, which scratching could not alleviate, of course. No doubt the photochemical smog produced by sunlight on Nitrogen oxides from diesel exhaust was the culprit, and that's why Paris, Milan and London are going (or already do) to keep these smog producers out of central cores.
If VW in particular, but all diesel manufacturers seem to have been at it one way or another, hadn't put in controls to bypass emission controls in anything but ideal conditions, then this almost 100 times the NOx output as the old EU4, and 40 times more than the EU6 standards are written, would not have occurred. The US standard is even more stringent than EU6 which is what tripped up VW.
Still, as we learn more with the investigations into the diesel engine these days particularly over here because a pointed stick has been prodded into heretofore asleep-on-the job bureaucrats, it has become increasingly clear that full abatement of diesel NOx output economically is not possible. Period. Yes, with urea injection you can reduce NOx in the exhaust to virtually nil. The catch is, you have to use it ALL the time (not every now and then on acceleration when the temp is betwwen 10 and 26 C) with fingers crossed hoping nobody in the regulatory inspectorates will notice the sleight of hand. Adblue urea tanks would have to take on huge proportions, and the gallonage required enormous. The running costs would go through the roof.
With huge investments in diesel engine factories, manufacturers have in effect backed themselves into a corner. They want to recoup their investment but have to fudge the operating cycles to get the engines to "pass" emissions testing. (Marchionne's latest jowl-flapping protests now that the V6 VM Motori has been caught out by the EPA is typical, but at least $2 billion in fines seems likely) That's before all the various special interests and under-educated owners come beetling out of the woodwork trying to obfuscate the issues, depending on what position important to them they are trying to push. Governments are embarrassed that their past endorsement of diesels for low CO2 (low fuel consumption couched as a semi-scientific term to confuse the public – like buying "units" of electricity rather than referring to them by their proper name kilowatt-hours, kWh for short) was shown to be short-sighted. Don't even get me started on the bogus efficiency calculations the EU puts forward for EVs on their web pages.
I'm a retired mechanical engineer, and have spent a fair amount of effort researching the diesel problem for a friend with a TDi. I always questioned the cycle efficiencies put forward by EV advocates, having spent many years in an electrical utility that operated everything from thermal plants to windmills. It seems that pushing a certain societal policy has defeated what used to be a straightforward mechanical engineering calculation. All objections are brushed aside by twits with no technical background but nevertheless in charge of policy, pursuing different objectives that the truth might derail if it got around. As bad as the accountants, who you had to convince when money needed to be spent, but had zero clue, but thats another story.
Lest I descend into further ranting at the silliness of much of what we are spoonfed these days, I'll end by saying that the rattling old diesel should be laid to rest, turbo-boosted midrange grunt notwithstanding. Let reality have a place in the spotlight. And hydrogen? Well that's the latest really silly gimmick. Whenever I read breathless prose on that subject, I take solace in my old Energy Conversion Systems textbook, and harshly laugh at the stupidity of what's happening these days for reasons unrelated to engineering basics.
The direct injection petrol engine soot particulate problem is virtually conquered now too, so let's go petrol. As someone else pointed out above, Mazda might well have conquered the HCCI combustion problem in petrol engines. If they have and actually intoduce it on the 2018 3 as promised, well there will be no refuges left for special agendas. Unfortunately, HCCI engines are likely to be diesel-like rattlers due to the short, extremely sharp combustion explosions, but at least the exhaust pollution problems will be easily overcome, and thermal eficiencies approach 50%, making your typical good thermal power station at 40% seem old-fashioned. Did I mention thermal power station pollution effluent is worse on a unit input fuel basis than a modern petrol engine anyway? Another reason to boot EVs to the curb, although well-intentioned people writing blurbs for greenie websites tend to blithely say, "Oh, pollution is more easily controlled at a central power station," as if it were some fundamental truth. Rubbish. They never bothered to actually check the reality.
Just curious would you happen to have a new president?
I think Bill's 'President' is called Trudeau. I don't know much about his country but he seems to have been in office for nearly 40 years. It must be something in the air.
You fail to take into account that a percentage of that thermal pollution is from refining a gallon/ litre of fuel for those combustion vehicles, also the transport of it and even pumping it into your tank!
Very convenient to forget how we abtain fuel and its own pollution trail when knocking EVs that can be charged with clean renewables.
editorjrb says:
I enjoyed this post! I do have a question: as an American, diesel isn't exactly the hot choice for a car here while it remains fairly popular there in your neck-of-the-woods. Do you contribute this change in attitude toward diesels upon beliefs about pollution? What about the price differences between diesel and petrol? Diesel is usually higher here in the States compared to petrol. Thanks for the feedback!
It varies. In France petrol was traditionally expensive and diesel was always a lot cheaper. So people's main reason for specifying was cost.
And, of course, though lots of us care about air quality, if it's going to cost us significantly more, we might have second thoughts. So really it has always been primarily cost, but with the comforting idea that we were saving the ozone layer into the deal.
But US petrol prices have always been so low (to us on this side) that it never really made much sense I guess.
Thank you for your reply! I really appreciate it.
misha1973 says:
We could always use LPG as fuel of choice in passenger vehicles and CNG for heavier, commercial ones….
Isn´t the energy density of LPG too low to be useful? I suppose more efficient engines would reduce the disparity. There remains the risk of moving objects with sodding big pressurised tanks which might explode and are hard to package. But I am being very black hat: a ground-up analysis could prove there is some use in LPG. My experience of it is anecdotal: a whole city street in Dublin closed off because of my father´s leaking LPG tank in his Volvo 240. Apart from that tank, the 240 was a fabulous machine (if you define fabulous to mean comfortable, durable, handsome and heavy with super upholstery).
CNG was quite popular here in NZ back in the '80s and early '90s, at least in the North Island. LPG was used too, but for some reason CNG was more popular. Dual fuelled CNG meant a loss of power compared to LPG.
I saw an Italian video about a guy who'd developed a drop-in replacement hybrid glow plug / spark plug that allowed him to run a JTD powered Alfa on LPG ("metano") & diesel. When running off LPG, it appeared to rev more like a petrol engine, but with torque and economy characteristics more like diesel.
Regarding safety I suppose pressurised LPG would be no different than pressurised hydrogen which some tout. My question is why continue with outdated tech by seeking ways to clean it's exhaust when the solution is already here in the form of electric. We now have an affordable production full electric car from GM with a 238 mile range, a Tesla with 350 mile range, and numerous variations of hybrids from virtually all manufacturers to fill the gap between full EV and conventional cars.
It should be obvious the industry is shifting toward an electrified future rather than trying to prop up the ice which has reached the end of its 131 year run in a motorcar.
What is now needed is for consumers to educate themselves of this trend and move into a future where using a car is more sustainable, cleaner, more pleasant to use, simpler and low in cost to maintain.
As usual the human factor of reluctance to change seems forever present when a replacement is offered and is perpetuated by, to put it diplomatically lack of knowledge.
My problem is not acceptance of EV's, but the fact that no-one has yet made an EV that really suits my (pernickity and rather arbitrary) preferences – and of course wallet. Of what is available I guess the BMW i3 comes closest, but it has unimpressive range and needs more rear room.
"My question is why continue with outdated tech by seeking ways to clean it's exhaust when the solution is already here in the form of electric."
Simple answer is that we are in a period of transition. Going all electric is still a compromise too far for most people, both on a financial and a practical level.
chrisward1978 says:
The largest psychological barrier for those considering an EV is increasingly not range, as that has largely been addressed, but infrastructure. If massed ranks of charging stations suddenly winked into existence outside every house, supermarket car park or holiday let, people would hardly give a thought to charging an EV. But that is not the case, hence our current chicken-and-egg scenario.
On a macro-cosmic scale, as long as we continue to rely on coal and gas for power generation, transitioning the domestic fleet from ICE to EV simply moves the source of CO2 emissions. If western countries are serious about reducing the impact of global warming, a huge upfront commitment to renewable (plus inevitably nuclear) power is necessary. Imagine a future scenario whereby a massive and sustained investment in renewable sources creates a glut of cheap energy. At that point, burning the remains of long dead dinosaurs will seem impossibly outmoded, expensive and impractical.
If I got an EV tomorrow, I could conceivably charge it off-street at my workplace. Otherwise I live in a terraced house so, even if I could secure a parking place outside my own home at the end of the day (unlikely) I'd then have to run power across to the car either by some home-made overhead gantry, or using one of those rubber cable protector devices across the pavement. Either is an invitation to vandalism. Ironically, city dwellers, who are the people most likely to appreciate EV's, are the ones for whom ownership is most difficult.
You could do like this guy and have your own kerbside charging point installed – with the added bonus of your very own parking space (just to annoy your neighbours):
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.477075,-0.1259562,3a,75y,353.29h,66.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s68bAkoe39DN97_lhSpHLRg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
In fact it could well be the guy mentioned in this article published 18 (!) years ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/1999/may/17/motoring
It brings up interesting issues. I don't think you can actually have your own point and designated space, but you can persuade the council to put one outside your house. However, if your neighbour buys an EV, there is nothing to stop them getting to your space first and hogging it. I see a period of petty conflicts as people learn (or don't bother learning) EV charging etiquette.
I'm pretty sure you're right. However I stopped by this very charger last night on my way back from work and there is no indication that it may be available for common use, which led me to believe that it predates any deep thinking about the deployment of charging points (not that Wandsworth appears to have gone very far on that front. Lambeth seems a bit more advanced, but the council tax is much higher there).
There's an i3 in my street, but they seem to charge that somewhere else. Otherwise someone had an EV parked and charging outside their house the other day (a one-off) and had stretched a striped rubber cable protector across the pavement – not really a satisfactory solution.
Some of the cases above can be solved with a PHEV ie unlimited range when required, or inability to charge either at home or away.
The psychological barrier! coming up to four years of full electric and PHEV use I cannot count on one hand the number of times I have charged away from home, of course that won't apply to everyone. Point is I think a big percentage would find this a reality but are put off when comparing an EV with a combustion car on a like for like basis where the consensus is it must go as far and fill as quickly at the local pumps or its a failure.
Nissan states there are now more than 10,000 charge points in the UK and ecotricity has the motorway system covered plus all the home chargers. I might add they can be plugged in anywhere as the charger itself is built into the car.
Power stations can be remotely located away from populations and be improved with an increasing mix of renewables which is something the ice cannot do.
Renewables in the UK provided 25% power needs in 2015 which was more than nuclear,are on the rise and will be driven partly by adopting electric cars since they compliment each other.
There is no need to wait It's already cheaper to run an EV compared to an ice and much more convenient to depart home with a "full tank" than standing in a diesel spill on a cold wind swept forecourt and forking out five or six times the amount for the privilege!
PHEV is a compromise in itself – you're effectively dragging 200kg of batteries with an ICE if you can't recharge regularly.
Compromise compared to a full EV but one that can suffice for many till battery tech advances further.
The Volt/Ampera weighs 1721 kg and 181 kg of that is battery which is partly compensated by a smaller less weighty fuel load.
I think anyone who buys a PHEV to favor the petrol side and not plug in regularly is missing the point completely.
Further to the above the second generation is lighter at 1607 kg and has a higher capacity battery and longer range, it's called development!
Forgot to mention battery weight dropped 14kg
There's no question that cars powered by ICEs only are not the future, but most new car buyers make a decision for the next 3 to 5 years at the most. And I'm pretty sure hybrids are gaining market share every year.
EVs are a different matter altogether, and market penetration is entirely dependent on the deployment of charging technology. 10,000 charge points for the whole of the UK is really not very much at all.
It's more than petrol station numbers and increasing, plus that figure doesn't include home points where most cars will be charged.
The year 2015 saw the global number of 1.26 million electric cars on the road double the 2014 number.
Battery cost have been cut by a factor of four since 2008 and are set to decrease further.
I have the numbers of cars per country if curious.
Just to clarify there is a distinction between hybrid and PHEV which everyone here may or may not know.
Toyota and Honda "hybrids" added efficiency to essentially a petrol driven car whereas the PHEV is electrically driven with back up ice driven generator. The hybrid was a step toward the PHEV which is a step below the full EV.
Reminds me of the old TV class sketch with Cleese Barker and Corbett.
So more and more people are buying EVs, just not as many as you would like. And while it's true that more people should consider it, for the majority it is not yet a viable option. What else is there to say?
There is always something to say when addressing others preconceived ideas of a new product and that's what I am endeavouring to do. Saying these cars are not a viable alternative for a majority is merely an opinion and one where the jury is still out while more come to market and the buyers become more educated.
I agree that a lot more people could adopt EVs and probably don't. One reason is that a car is a significant investment for most people and they tend to stick with the tried and tested – bearing in mind how much the phone industry and the motor industry have changed over the past 100 years, it's clear that the motor industry is very conservative (to put it politely) and punters aren't used to such sea changes – we're only just getting over the shock of 4 valve heads.
But, reverting to the original theme of this piece, maybe the people who are worried about looking fools for adopting EVs too early, should look at where their 'safe' purchase of an 'eco friendly' diesel car will have landed them if they hang on to it and find themselves increasingly taxed and surcharged over ownership of a car that has suddenly become a bit of a liability.
"Saying these cars are not a viable alternative for a majority is merely an opinion and one where the jury is still out while more come to market and the buyers become more educated."
I wrote: "for the majority it is not YET a viable option" (emphasis added). So we're effectively saying the same thing, just my glass is half-full and your half-empty…
Having made a covenant with myself never to bring up tedious matters of range anxiety in any account of my EV experiences, today I found myself cursing our Nissan Leaf and the infrastructure which supports it.
Black mark to infrastructure: The Leaf is picked up this morning showing 51 miles range, around 6/1o of capacity. How [exdel] difficult was it for the previous user to connect two plugs into their requisite sockets? How [exdel] difficult would it have been for the [exdels] in charge of the EV fleet to check that all ships were in harbour and anchored profitably to a charging point?
My intended journey is about 45 miles of town and motorway driving. I re-plan to cut out a few miles. The schedule is not too pressing, so I enjoy the serenity, rather than indulge in Poor Man's Tesla heroics. In either mode the Leaf is beguiling. After a day with the Leaf, to my two litre turbo-diesel daily driver feels like an escapee from a farm. Gold Star to the Leaf.
So far so good. The EV user group to which I belong has determined that the Leaf's remaining range indicator is a damn blasted liar. With this in mind I've been limiting myself to 60mph (mostly), avoided sudden acceleration, and even slipstreamed trucks. I discover that once it reaches ten miles left, the range indicator stops trying to predict. Even Rizla packets do better than that. This happens about five miles from base camp. I go four miles with the charge 'gauge' indicated empty. No sign of a decline in performance, but I'm not tempting fate. Roll into the car park. I've done 40 miles since I picked up the Leaf. I wasn't worried, as our fleet manager conducted tests to establish how long our Leaves and i-MiEVs would run on 'empty'. The answer is 20 miles, but don't take that as gospel. Black mark to the Leaf.
Go to our sole 'super-charger' The two bays are occupied by an i-MiEV and an NV200e. Both plugged into [exdel] 13 Amp domestic sockets. Drive to the secondary charging site. All 13A, mostly used for i-MiEVs. The Leaf is considerably hungrier for kVA than the little Mitsubishis, and an overnight charge on a 13A socket will not restore full capacity overnight. The 'super-charger' will do the business in just over an hour.
All of which is academic, as some [exdel] has blagged the Leaf's 13A charging lead. Return the keys and report the matter, with little confidence that anyone will get off their fat [exdel] at 3:30 on a Friday afternoon to make sure that the Leaf is ready for duty on Monday morning. It's no help that we have one 'super-charger' to serve two Leaves, four NV200es, and and any visiting EV dignitaries – we generously offer the campus's EV charging facilities gratis to any EV user. Nevertheless massive [exdel] black mark to the infrastructure.
Conclusions: The Leaf is still wonderful – try one if ever you have the chance – but Nissan have to sort out that damn blasted liar of a range indicator. The whole HMI needs to be reconsidered, it is needlessly complicated, and isn't up to the standard of the rest of the car. More pertinently, the rise of the EV will stand or fall on infrastructure. Presently I'm put in mind of Frau Benz planning her journeys around the locations of pharmacies able to provide a sufficiency of volatile cleaning fluid.
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Cooking at home does not have to be complicated or hard. One of the joys of fall cooking is ease of combining simple flavors to create healthy dishes that are flavorful and something you want to eat. Roasting is a great way to create dishes that need little or no extra added fats but are filled with flavor. These four dishes all require the use of the oven, yet are simple and easy to make.
The recipes have no listed ingredients because serving amounts are based on what you want and you get to choose how much flavor to add according to your taste buds. Don't be afraid to be creative.
For a quick, healthy potato recipe: microwave the potato (or a few) until soft. In the meantime, turn on the oven's broiler and get out a baking sheet. Once the potato is soft, place it on the baking sheet and smash the potato with a spoon or fork into large chunks, taking care to keep the bottom skin intact (yes, leave the skin, it adds to the taste and is good for you). Once you've smashed all your potatoes, sprinkle over with a mixture of fresh chopped herbs of your choice such as chives, thyme, parsley or basil. Drizzle a little olive oil of the top; add sea salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste. Pop the pan into the oven and leave until golden brown on top.
Speed up the roasting of an acorn squash by microwaving it for ten minutes, turning once, before cutting it in half and preparing it to finish off in the oven. Cover a baking dish with foil, halve the squash and remove the seeds. Place the squash on the baking dish and sprinkle with your choice and to your taste: cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice or pumpkin pie spice. Add some brown sugar and pop into the oven to bake until completely soft and the sugar caramelizes a little on the top. Serve as a side or for dessert. This recipe will also work for sweet potatoes.
Turn brussel sprout haters into lovers with this simple recipe. Trim the ends of the brussel sprouts and remove any damaged or yellow leaves, then quarter the brussel sprouts down the stem. While cleaning the sprouts, bring a pot of water up to boil on the stove for blanching your sprouts. Add the quartered sprouts to the boiling water and cook for six minutes. Drain in a colander. To finish off, line a baking sheet with foil and turn the oven to broil. Drizzle olive oil over the sprouts, sprinkle with sea salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste and stir to coat (sprouts are actually good to serve like this as well). Place sprouts on the prepared baking sheet in a single layer and roast in the oven until leaves are blackening, stirring several times to get all sides. Serve as a yummy appetizer or for a side dish. The roasting brings out the wonderful green nutty flavors and leaves no reminder of the soggy, waterlogged brussel sprouts of our youth.
For wonderfully moist roasted chicken breasts, purchase bone-in, skin on chicken breasts. Make a salty brine using water and salt (water should be as salty as ocean water), add the chicken and allow to brine for at least overnight (a quicker version of this chicken is to just coat with seasoning and cook as is and while good, it's not as moist). Turn oven on to 450° and place the rack in the middle of the oven (too close to the heat will have the chicken fat popping onto the burner causing smoke). Using a large skillet or high-sided dish that can go from the stove to oven such as a Dutch oven, heat some olive oil on a medium hot burner. Season the chicken breasts with the minimum of salt and pepper, applying generously because the seasoning needs to soak through the chicken. Apply herbs such as thyme, rosemary and sage or spices such as smoked paprika, cayenne pepper, garlic and onion powder. Combine and use the flavors of your choice, this is all about you. Place the chicken into the hot oil and cook until browned on each side, end with the skin side down. If you want roasted veggies and have room in the pan, add them in around the chicken after coating with a little olive oil, salt and pepper. Good veggie choices are potatoes, butternut squash, sweet potatoes, onions and garlic (left whole). Place the pan into the oven and roast the chicken for 15 minutes before turning over, ending with skin on top for crispy skin (to reduce fat, you can always remove skin after cooking but not until then or your chicken will dry out). Cook for another 15 minutes. Using a meat thermometer, your chicken should read 160°. Larger, thicker pieces may need more time. Allow chicken to rest 5 to 10 minutes before serving. If veggies need a little more cooking, return them to oven while chicken is resting to continue roasting.
Roasting is great for fall dishes because it brings out wonderful flavors with little effort. These four dishes will have your friends and family thinking your spent hours in the kitchen. Keep the simple ease of it all to yourself or share, it's up to you. Just don't miss out on the healthy goodness of bringing fall to your table.


Finding a bottle of wine to complement your dinner can be difficult if you are not a wine enthusiast, but with a few basic guidelines, you might be shopping for a red wine like a professional wine lover in no time.
You might question that "Does it really matter what wine you should drink with your food?" Yes, you should know it, and it may absolutely matter.
"Drink what you like, don't worry about what wine goes with what food." Picking the wrong wine with a meal is like putting salt on applesauce, wearing polka-dots with plaid or wearing gloves on your feet. We would never do such a thing - it just doesn't make sense.
By matching your food with your wine, you get the best bang for your buck. Paring food and wine does not have to be complicated. Following a few simple rules will allow even the most novice wine-drinker to get more out of a dinner and bottle of wine. It will also lend room for exploring wines that one would otherwise be less likely to try.
White wines complement light-colored sauces, fish and poultry.
Red wines match with dark-colored sauces, beef and game.
White wines fit citrus desserts while red wines fit chocolate desserts. Spicy dishes always pair nicely with a sweet wine.
So how does this translate to a wine selection at a restaurant or the local wine shop? If you are new to wine, making a selection can be overwhelming and confusing. How do you decide between the wines?
Narrow down what you will be eating, and then ask for a recommendation. A good restaurant and wine shop will always be able to offer several recommendations.
Ask and they will help you to select the right wine. It does not have to be an expensive one.
When you drink that sweet German Riesling with Kung Pao Chicken or a French Syrah with a dark chocolate cake, you will discover what is so great about matching food and wine. Experiment with different combinations, but know your basics so your money is well spent to enjoy your life with food and wine.


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About NJOA
We Need to Fight This Bad Bill
Hunting, Legislative Issues, Trapping / By Gene Doebley
Dear NJOA Supporters,
There is another bill (Resolution) being introduced in the NJ legislature in an to attempt to eliminate trapping. The bill is ACR-164/SCR124. So far there are only two sponsors, one in each house but we need to bring our concerns forward before this misguided bill gets wings. The bill seeks to overturn the decision by the Fish and Game Council that allows the use of enclosed foothold traps.
The assertion in the resolution that enclosed foothold traps violates the intent of the 1984 bill banning leghold traps completely ignores the voluminous record that the F&G Council used in making their determination. This issue was litigated in 2016 and the court clearly held that the F&G Council's action was proper. The record of the safety and effectiveness of these traps is clear.
NJOA has already gone on record with the sponsors with clear explanations on why this bill is a bad idea. If you want to help you can contact Sen. Troy Singleton SENSINGLETON@NJLEG.ORG PH: (856) 234-2790 and Assemblyman Daniel Benson AsmBenson@njleg.org ph (609) 631-0198 and tell them you support the rights of New Jersey's trappers.
Attached is an analysis done by Ed Markowski from 2016 that outlines the consequences of bad legislation like this.
RACCOONS, RABIES AND TRAPPING
First let's lay out the facts. In 1984 the legislature passed a law making it illegal to possess steel jawed leg hold traps in New Jersey. The law took effect in 1985. When this law went into effect trappers were harvesting over 30,000 raccoons a year. With the banning of the leg hold trap that number dropped to less than 1,000 animals in 1985.
In 1985, New Jersey had yet to detect its first case of rabies in raccoons.
Between 1985 and 1989 rabies, carried on the back of an exploding raccoon population, had expanded to all 21 counties in New Jersey.
In 1989 the New Jersey Department of Health began keeping state wide statistics of rabies cases and the animal that exposed humans to the virus. Since 1989 through June of 2016 the Health Department has reported a total of 7,459 verified cases of terrestrial rabies in New Jersey. Of those 7,459 cases 5,413 or 73% were found to be in the raccoon population. According to the New Jersey Department of Health, Division of Epidemiology, "all areas of the State of New Jersey, including urban centers, have been affected by the raccoon rabies epizootic. Suburban areas in which raccoons, people and pets are in close proximity have had the largest number of cases. The rabies virus is now established in the raccoon population." Currently only raccoons that have come in contact with humans or domestic animals are tested for the rabies virus.
In response to an expanding raccoon population and an increase in the reported number of rabies cases linked to raccoons the New Jersey Fish and Game Council approved the use of the encapsulated dog proof trap for the 2015/16 trapping season. This new trap was reviewed by the New Jersey Attorney General who found it to be a legal alternative to the steel jawed leg hold trap that was banned in 1984. Results from the first season's use of the encapsulated dog proof trap indicates an increase in the raccoon harvest and not a single reported case of a non-target species being captured.
In response to a suit brought against the New Jersey Fish and Game Council, a three-judge panel of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, unanimously found that the encapsulated dog proof trap met the test of the 1984 law as an alternative to the steel jawed leg hold trap.
The use of these new trapping devices will provide for the effective control of a targeted wildlife population, raccoons, the reduction of exposure to the rabies virus to humans through the reduced incidence of contact with raccoons and the wise use of a renewable natural resource.
It's time to make a choice, animal rights or the health and safety of the citizens of the state of New Jersey. Elmwood Park, New Jersey January 28,2016 Rabid Raccoon attacks and mauls a 6-year-old boy on his way to school. How would you feel if this was your child? Animal rights or public health and safety, managing wildlife with science or emotion, you make the choice.
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Bruce Willis Quotes
Enjoy the top 90 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Bruce Willis.
"Whos driving this car, Stevie Wonder?"
— Bruce Willis —
"I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off."
— Bruce Willis
But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.
"I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all."
On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
"There was a lot of dancing in '76, '78, in the '80s. A lot of dancing. The burn years. A lot of dancing. And for a while, working fit in with all that. 'Moonlighting' - that wasn't acting. It was people telling me 'Let's create a character who is you, so you can play him the way you are. The guy you are at night.' It was fun."
"I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls."
"I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions."
"If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs."
"Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human."
"After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground."
"I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself."
Who I am as a father is far more important to me than the public perception.
"I'm happy every day."
"I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble."
"I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain."
"Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart."
"I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor."
"Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing."
"I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with."
I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
"I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it."
"I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job."
"I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person."
"I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work."
"I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics."
"I'm always excited to be around other actors. I sometimes only get to work with myself, and it's so tedious. I was so excited to go to work every day, and we ran into work every day."
"I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life."
"To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually saying we can get along without His help while the evidence is very clear on every hand that we cannot. Could it be that the sin of prayerlessness steams from our unbelief that he is a living God who exercises direct influence on the affairs of men?"
"I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids."
"Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys."
"All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation."
"Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder?"
"Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?"
"Whether you're a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head."
"There is nothing better than strolling down the beach the way God made you."
Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting
"All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it."
Instead of waiting until crisis problems develop which result in panic praying for others, we need to trust God to protect them as we pray Spirit-led, thoughtful, caring prayers before the problems overwhelm them, and they are unable to cope. We need to engage in major battles, not just minor skirmishes, moving from surface praying to in-depth praying. We need to pray both defensively and offensively.
"They hear you own up, and they learn to own up."
"There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a pretty big star, folks - I don't have to tell you. Superstar, I guess you could say."
"I know how to turn it on [computer]. I know where the disc goes: in that little slot but I can't always get it out. And I have three genius-level computer savvy kids who save my ass all the time. I'll tell you what I don't do. I don't watch the news on TV anymore. I get my news online. And like all of you, I Google whoever I want."
"What I say is what I say, I don't always say the right thing, I don't always say the politically correct thing. I don't have any regrets about that."
"My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience."
I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.
"Everybody understands that acting is a really difficult job. It's hard work. You've got to get dressed up, you've got to hang around with beautiful women. It's difficult. It's a problem."
"If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment."
I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.
I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.
"I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics."
"There are lots of different parts of movie-making that I participate in, but my favorite part is the making of it. I'm scared, every day. I keep thinking someone's going to throw me the ball and I'm going to go, "Oh, wow. Oh, god. I just messed that up.""
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How Dark Social is affecting your content marketing strategy
Approximately 60 per cent of all sharing is 'dark social'. Here's why it is vital to any brand's content marketing strategy
Brad Howarth (CMO)
Publishers have long understood the importance of knowing where their traffic comes from. Such knowledge was made easier to acquire with the advent of social media and the ubiquitous 'Share' buttons that both enabled consumers to easily repost content to their social media feeds, while letting publishers easily track them as they did so.
But publishers have always known such sharing does not paint a complete picture of how their content is being passed along. Social sharing and search has never been able to entirely account for the number of visitors they receive via deep links.
The logical conclusion is that much of this sharing comes about through other means, such as consumers cutting and pasting links into an email and then forwarding that along to a specific person of group. This concept was thrust into the spotlight in October 2012 by Alexis Madrigal, deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com, when he labelled this activity in an article as 'dark social'.
According to audience behaviour technology specialists, RadiumOne, approximately 60 per cent of all sharing is 'dark' – a figure that rises to higher than 80 per cent for content relating to the automotive sector. It is a concept that has received additional attention recently thanks to the rise in interest in content marketing, and the greater spending brands are making in their own shareable content.
"Sharing is an inherently human thing," says Jason Juma-Ross, lead partner for digital intelligence at PricewaterhouseCoopers. "Social, and even digital social, has been around long before Facebook with UseNet, IRC and Email, and will be around long after Facebook has gone.
"So if you are a CMO you need to understand that broader context, and most CMOs do get that."
Sharing is particularly interesting to those CMOs who are interested in creating their own content strategy and knowing how it is driving traffic back to their properties, he says. This sees many brands now acting like publishers.
"If you are going to create content, and it's going to be more narrowcast and less broadcast, you have to lower the cost of content production, because you are producing it for a smaller audience and you have to be able to get it to those people," Juma-Ross says. "Social can play a role in both of those things.
"There is a lot of enthusiasm now around traditional organisations learning from publishers about content creation."
Right content audience
Getting content in front of the right consumers is a task that has been taken up by US-based company, Outbrain, which works with publishers and brands to build audiences.
According to Outbrain's general manager for Australia and New Zealand, Ayal Steiner, one of the important consideration for all kinds of publishers is to understand the so-called ripple effect that occurs around content as consumers push it out to their networks.
"It always happened, even before social," Steiner says. "But in traditional advertising it was less relevant, because people don't tend to share advertisements. What they do tend to share is stories. So in the world of storytelling in the digital realm, and the rise of content marketing, I think that is why dark social is getting more and more of the centre stage."
What makes dark social sharing particularly important for marketers is what the act of dark sharing says about a person's regard for content.
"When they share across dark social I would say this is a much more targeted sharing than the traditional blasting through a social channel," Steiner claims. "Dark social is much more targeted, because they hand-pick and select individually the people they think might find it interesting. And the people that receive something are much more likely to truly engage with it. The ripple effect is much more focused, but also much stronger.
"A lot of people think clicks is what matters, but what really matters is the engagement."
Tracking dark social
One of the problems with dark social sharing, however, is it has been difficult to track exactly who is doing the sharing. OutBrain's solution is to attached UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) codes to URLs, so that publishers can better understand the origin of the sharing activity.
"By appending tags, you can make sure that regardless of where this link ended up in, you know that you attribute it back to a certain distribution activity or a channel that you paid to distribute it from," Steiner says. "And it is important to understand for brands what the channel that has the best ripple effect is."
But Steiner says most marketers today are focused on visible sharing through networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn.
"I haven't seen anyone to date looking at the amount of referrals or ripple effect coming from any activity that relates to dark social," Steiner says. "So I would say it is very early on and untapped."
Exactly what marketers are missing out on through their inability to track dark social sharing is difficult to determine, but it could be substantial.
According to RadiumOne's managing director for Asia-Pacific, Kerry McCabe, content consumption is an important component of a buyer's journey, and any marketer interested in upper-funnel prospecting should be taking a greater interest.
RadiumOne's solution is to wrap content with a host URL shortener at its inception, so it can be tracked from the moment that it is first shared.
"What we see on our network is a six to nine times uplift in the audience size that defines valuable audience sets," McCabe claims. "Through the understanding of this and actioning of this we're able to then speak to a really quality audience six to nine times larger than the seed. And conversion, we see at about 15 to 30 per cent higher than on a normal campaign.
"There's a whole other world out there, and what we know across our network is it's bigger and when actioned, more valuable."
Raw numbers are only just the beginning of how an investigation of dark social activity might benefit a brand. McCabe says dark social actually points to some interesting consumer behaviours that are otherwise difficult to track.
"There is a human science piece here too about what consumers are comfortable sharing in the open domain and what they are not, and this applies very much when you look at the category breakdown of advertisers," he says.
"There is a precursor in the thought process before I process something to a social network which is 'how is it going to look'. And what that does is determine what people are going to post. Whereas when you are authentically sharing what you are interested in without those filters, then it is a lot more intimate."
But McCabe estimates only 10 per cent of the brands he talks to are currently investigating dark social sharing.
Even were a marketer to fully get on top of dark social sharing, it represents just another trend in the rapidly-evolving social media landscape.
Juna-Ross says people's desire for privacy is seeing new phenomena emerge, such as Cloak and Secret, which will also alter social sharing.
"If you are trying to understand social you have to look at the whole universe, but look at the whole universe and be able to parse it," Juma-Ross says. "Now we are seeing this much broader distribution of applications and social uses across the suite that range from broadcast to one to one, and from permanent things to ephemeral things.
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